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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1907
Page
2
Rumors and anecdotes fill a column with varied notes. Topics span a Philadelphia weenie wagon ad to ostrich counts in Arizona, Howells age, Carducci gifts to Bologna, a Missouri Mississippi river dig at Massachusetts, and a London visit by Botha. A Bankipur echo house and Bombay college plans are described alongside a volcanic Pang Sangay report and a Paris horse consumption tally. The piece blends whimsy, politics, and science in reflective fashion.
A sermon retells Jephthah’s daughter tale from Judges, praising her devotion to God and filial loyalty. It contrasts her courage with her father’s vow, noting her final two months in seclusion, her comforting farewell, and the enduring impact of her words on Jephthah and Israel.
Orison Swett Marden warns that the urge to show wealth corrupts all social ranks from millionaire to clerk. He cites ruined families, debt and bankruptcy, and urges plain living, honesty, and self control to resist the pressure to fake status for social advancement.
A Pittsburg Dispatch reader offers old fashioned soothing recipes for invalids including Arrowroot Water Jelly and Arrowroot Custard, plus Forbear to over-sweeten. Also detailed are Old-Fashioned Panada and Chicken Jelly with step by step instructions, times, temperatures, and serving tips.
A scanned fragment notes how glazed paper edges can cut skin when drawn swiftly across a finger, comparing the sharp action to a knife. It mentions the world’s fair and the peculiar property of matter called iner Beriin, with a line about teeth cutting flesh and bullets passing through glass leaving clean holes.
A Rodrigues bird, once flightless, bore a bone outgrowth at the wing joint forming a knob. This made the short wing a dangerous feature, likened to a policeman’s billy in its offensive potential.
Col Luther Haymond oldest Clarksburg resident marked his ninety eighth birthday with a cake gifted by Phoebe Robinson in 1829 during a Bartlett hotel ball. The heart shaped cake and the accompanying paper remain well preserved and legible as part of the birthday commemoration.
Practical kitchen hints and household instructions. How to wrap cheese to keep it fresh and mold free, ways to present gingerbread with whipped cream, serving fruit attractively, methods to perfume clothes to deter moths, and tips to beat eggs into froth with a salt rinse and air current.
Milk and eggs form the basis of light nourishing foods as they supply essential bodily tissues heat and energy. Curds whey and Junkets are underused in feeding invalids and provide valuable digestible appetizing options to tempt intake when meals are repetitive.
A Washington era piece lauds women’s quiet bravery from daily toil to self denial. It contrasts with men’s visible courage and highlights wage labor, economy, and motherhood as forms of steadfast fortitude. It suggests a housing charity model in Washington to shelter industrious women supported by philanthropy.
In this article the vast Sage fortune is likened to a mountain whose sudden descent could brighten humble valleys. The piece praises Mrs Russell Sage and questions how the $10,000,000 gift will be managed. It warns the fund could end slum conditions if used for frank research and direct poverty relief rather than aimless theorizing.
A Washington: people care more for eloquence than for the correctness of arguments. The born orator asserts effectiveness lies in presentation rather than factual precision.
An eastern man asks Broncho Bob if he has tried the stock market. He replies that stock deals resemble fare deals and advises to fight shy unless you know the dealer. Washington Star report quoted.
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